Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-01
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

MiSSOORI STATE NEWS
A. w. Morris, theatrical man, commit
ted suicide with poison in the Laclede
Hotel, st. Louis, a few days ago.
VIM. T. Gam, a woodchopper, near St.
Joseph, was called to his door a few morn
ings since and shot.
Stone for the addition to the State Capt.
toll at Jefferson City is being quarried at
Louisiana. 1t is reported of the first quail
ity, being Of pure white, and takes a fine
finish.
Mrs. Edward Sheehan, aged sixty-six
years, wife of one of the oldest settlers of
st. Joseph, and belonging to one Of it's
best families, died few days since after
fve-months' illness of Bright's disease.
She leaves husband and six children.
There is good authority for announcing
that the next annual convention of the
Consolidated Cattle-Growers' Association
will be held in Kansas City next month.
The following counties in this State
have township organizations: Barton,
Bates, Caldwell, Carroll, Charlton, Cass,
Daviess, DeKalb, Grundy, Harrison, Linn,
Livingston, Macon, Nodaway, Putnam,
Sullivan and Vernon. There are 271
townships and consequently 271 township
treasurers.
The twenty seventh annual st. Louis
Fair, commencing Monday, October 3, and
continuing the entire week, will, beyond
doubt, surpass any of it's predecessors.
The exhibit in the way Of agricultural i'm
PIGMENTS, mechanical contrivances, to-
gether with farmers product, textile
fabrics, dairy implements, butter, cheese,
poultry, horses, cattle, sheep, swine and
hundreds of other branches of industry,
equally as instructive and interesting to
r,tf a.
cellent advantage. The President of the
United States will be in the city on the Sd
and 4th.
Dora Daily was fatally burned in st.
Louis a few days ago, her clothing taking
fire from some turpentine she was heating,
and which became ignited.
In the Klein Valiant judicial contest in
st. Louis, the recount of the votes, which
has been going on for some months, shows
that Klein was duly elected, and that the
certificate of election was wrongfully
awarded to Valiant, the Democratic can.
didate.
A post-off1ce has been established at
Worlend, Bates County, Michael Moore,
postmaster.
st. Louis is still leading the country in
the manufacture of tobacco.
At st. Louis few nights ago Henry
was fatally SHOG Dy Dr ii. MARX,
while trying to enter the latter's residence
through window. He proved to be
neighbor, who, being intoxicated, had
mistaken the doctors home for his own.
Mr.. c. F. Dykins, of Chicago, has been
appointed resident manager Of the Cyclic
rama of "The Battle of Chattanooga" in
st. Louis, an has been duly installed in
that position by Colonel A. P. Cosgrove,
manager of the Cyclorama of missionary
Ridge" at Kansas City.
Patents have recently been granted to
Missourians as follows: John T. Aiken,
Purdy, knockdown crate; Cotton H. Al
len, st. Louis, clip for rope traces; F.
Egno, assignor one-half to j. P. Keiser,
apparatus for manufacturing Illuminating
gas; BENZ. r. Foster, st. Louis, automatic
grain scale; John B. Heverling, assignor
to c. E. Heverling, st. Louis, cable rail-
way; John M. Irwin, st. Louis, corn har-
vester; Constant Laval, Kansas City, sill
vering glass for mirrors; Andrew H.
Lucas, ST. Louis, hull and keel for steam
ship; Jos. P. Lutes, Ridgely, lister culti
vator; Robert McClintock, Kansas City,
racing harness; W. B. Meader, Leonard
hog nose trimmer; John Stangle, Harlem
vine securing device; Robt. p. Tremble
Oregon, curtain shade fixture.
Two thousand members of the A. o. U
w., of Northwest Missouri, met at King
City, thirty miles northeast of st. Joseph,
in their annual reunion and jubilee, last
week. John A. Brooks, of Kansas City,
past Supreme Master Workman of the
order, and H. L. Rogers, of st. Louis,
Grand Master Workman of Missouri, were
present and made addresses. The next
reunion will be held in st. Joseph.
Henry Robb, q farmer living about five
miles east of st. Joseph, while going home
a few nights ago, was run over and killed
by an east-bound passenger train on the
Rock Island, about mile from his home.
The accident occurred in a deep cut. The
coroner's jury returned verdict declar
ing that the killing was the result of gross
negligence on the part of those in charge
of the train.
OF late there has been several suits in
st. Joseph against saloon men for selling
liquor to minors. 1t is now thought by
good many that in most cases a shrewd
game has been played against the saloons.
They say that certain individual in st.
Joseph has on numerous occasions sent
his son into saloon, and just as the son
was drinking he would come in suddenly,
catching him in the act. The saloon man
would then be asked to pay for the viola
ton of the law, and when he refused was
arrested. This game has been played a
number of times of late, most of the saloon
men preferring to pay rather than to be
arrested.
There arrived in Atchison last week
sixty spans of mules, which will be used
in grading the road-bed of the Santa Fe's
line from Atchison to st. Joseph. 1t is the
intention of the company to begin work at
once, but the time may be postponed
few days on account of the exact location
of the road bed being undecided. Two sur
veys have been made to st. Joseph from
Atchson, one of them following the river,
and as vet the company has not decided
which of these surveys to accept. As soon
as this is decided work will be commenced
and pushed forward with dispatch.
Frank Lawson, a young Swede, who
has been in the employ of Frank Enfield
Brothers in running sandboat at Wayne
City, was drowned few days ago. He
was in charge of the boat, which was
loaded with 800 bushels of sand and in the
current, when the Government boat
Molina, which plies between Kansas City
and the Government works near Wayne
City, passed by and caused the waves to
run SO high that the sandboat was over
flowed. Arthur Davis, a fellow-boatman,
was taken out of the river nearer dead /
than alive. Lawson has a brother in Chi
cago and one in Nebraska City. His body |
had not been recovered.
Dog days are over, for which thanks.
A man named Isaac Laws, horse-thief, |
was shot by deputy sheriff at ST. Joseph |
a few days since. It is supposed that he |
was one of the parties that shot Farmer
Gam.
Sister Mary Magdalene McGovern, of the /
Sisters of Charity, sixty years OF age, died !
at the House of the Angel Guardian, in st. |
Louis few days ago.